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Jewish Festivals: Telephones and Time Zones
If a Jewish festival is over where you are, you may speak by phone to non-Jews in a place that is still observing the Jewish festival.
Jewish Festivals: Tearing Paper and Plastic Wrap

You may tear paper, plastic, foil, or other wrappers around food in order to eat that food on a Jewish festival.

You may tear plastic and foil (but not paper) around napkins, plasticware, etc., that you need on Jewish festival.

But you may not:

  • Do so if you will inevitably tear through any words or pictures on the package.
  • Use scissors.
     
Except for wrappers for food or eating utensils, do not tear paper, foil, toilet paper, parchment paper, plastic wrap, paper towels, etc., on a Jewish festival.
Note If there is a perforation, that makes the tearing worse.
Note If you do not have any torn toilet paper, tear it is an unusual way:
EXAMPLES
  • Tear using the back of your hand.
  • Spread the toilet paper across your knees and then spread your knees apart.
Jewish Festivals: Taping Card to Hotel Door
You may tape a card to a hotel room door on Jewish festivals in order to prevent it from locking you out.
Jewish Festivals: Taping Items Together
You may not tape items together, on Jewish festivals, if you intend for them to stay attached for more than 24 hours.
Jewish Festivals: Diluting Sunscreens before Festival
You may dilute sunscreen before Jewish festivals with water or alcohol, but some sunscreens may not become more fluid even with added water or alcohol.
 
Jewish Festivals: Sunscreens
To use a fluid on skin on Jewish festivals, even sunscreen that may be needed to protect damaged skin, the fluid must flow without lumps and not be more viscous than honey at room temperature. Therefore, apply sunscreen only if fluid (but not a cream or thick liquid).
Jewish Festivals: Sponging
You may not wash dishes on Jewish festivals with a
  • Sponge (even if it is on a handle), 
  • Dish rag, or 
  • Scrubbing pad (pad that holds water and, when used, the water gets squeezed out).
You may use wide mesh or other items that do not normally hold water.
 
Jewish Festivals: Soap Bubbles
Causing soap bubbles from lather is not a problem on Jewish festivals.
 
Jewish Festivals: Hard Soap
You may not use hard soap on Jewish festivals.
Jewish Festivals: Shipment that Arrives on Festival
You may not send a shipment--such as Fedex or another express delivery service--to arrive on Jewish festivals.  However, you may tell the shipper that it is OK with you if it is delivered at night after the festival.
 
Jewish Festivals: Secular Studies
Studying secular subjects on Jewish festivals is not in the spirit of the Jewish festival, but you may do so.
Jewish Festivals: Walking Past Motion Detectors/Microwave Sensors Situation
Situation You enter a room on a Jewish festival and then find that there is a motion detector that will turn on a light or an LED.
What To Do You should not move until someone else has entered the room and the light has turned on. You may then leave while the light is still on.
Jewish Festivals: Covering Motion Detectors
Situation A motion detector will light up when you move.
What To Do You must cover the detector or turn off the device before the Jewish festival begins.
Jewish Festivals: Opening Refrigerator Door with LEDs
As on Shabbat, do not open a refrigerator door that has LEDs that illuminate when the door is opened on Jewish festivals.
Jewish Festivals: Well Water
You may use water from a well on Jewish festivals (as on Shabbat) via an automatic pump that fills a reservoir once the water level drops. But you may not operate the pump directly and you may not turn the pump on or off.